Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for… — Frank Caplan Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well. — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our… — Kamal Ahmed Copy Share Image
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. — John Keats Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time. — Joyce Hall Copy Share Image
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image